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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Charleston, WV

May 18, 2001Athens County, Jackson County, Vinton County, Ohio

NWS Charleston, WV issued this flash flood warning at May 18, 2001, 3:51 PM EDT for Athens County, Jackson County, Vinton County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 2001, 3:51 PM EDT (19:51 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Athens County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Vinton County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1152 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KRLX 181954
FFWRLX
OHC009-079-163-182300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
351 PM EDT FRI MAY 18 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ATHENS COUNTY IN OHIO...
  JACKSON COUNTY IN OHIO...
  VINTON COUNTY IN OHIO...

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT...

* AT 349 PM EDT...HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING INTO THE 3 COUNTIES FROM
  THE WEST.  RAIN FALL RATES OF AN INCH IN LESS THAN HOUR ARE
  POSSIBLE IN LOCALIZED AREAS.  

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE OAK HILL...
  NELSONVILLE...MCARTHUR...LAKE HOPE STATE PARK...JACKSON...ATHENS
  AND ALBANY.

<<CALL TO ACTION>> DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE 
WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW 
YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE 
ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

<<CALL TO ACTION>> STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR ANY
FURTHER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS.

PLEASE REPORT HIGH WATER...HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.

$$

LAT...LON 3935 8277 3884 8280 3885 8247 3919 8n232
          3917 8180 3946 8187 3947 8228 3937 8231

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 10:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia, Lawrence	3 hr
May 18, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson	45 min
May 18, 5:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Gallia	37 min
May 18, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Jackson, Vinton	28 min
May 18, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Meigs	44 min
May 18, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Gallia, Jackson	37 min
May 18, 6:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Gallia	3 hr
May 18, 6:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Meigs	3 hr
May 18, 6:40 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Lawrence	3 hr
May 18, 7:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Athens, Vinton	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Ohio, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.